Please see our Calendar and Gallery pages for current exhibitions and SAAL&M sponsored activities in the San Antonio Area.

• Artist of the Year
• Annual San Antonio Artists Exhibition - Onderdonk Prize
• Ethel T. Drought Founders Award
• Holiday Party and Auction

Since 1945, the San Antonio Art League Museum has recognized an artist as artist of the Year. The artist is honored with a retrospective exhibition and an accompanying catalogue.

  Artist of the Year 2008 is Sky Patterson

click here for past artists of the year

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Each year the San Antonio Art League Museum sponsors this Exhibition. The annual San Antonio Artists Exhibition grew out of the fabled Edgar B. Davis Competitions of the late 1920s. Although not as spectacular in scope as the Davis Exhibitions of 1927, 1928, and 1929, the Annual San Antonio Artists Competitions are juried events and the purchase prizes will add to the permanent collection of the San Antonio Art League Museum (SAAL&M).

The major difference between the shows of then and now is that the national competitions of the Davis era were changed to an eligibility of entrance from within a 60 miles radius of San Antonio to better reflect the mission of SAAL&M to "exhibit and promote local, regional and Texas art." It provides an opportunity for artists of all media, young or old, experienced or beginners, to be judged by a juror of repute for acceptance in the exhibition and to compete for awards and purchase prizes. click here for details on past exhibitions

Sponsored by
The San Antonio Art League and Museum
130 King William Street
San Antonio, Texas 78204
210-223-1140
email: saalm@txdirect.net

For questions and prospectus please call or email to the above.

Exhibition Date

April 6th - May 24th, 2008

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Judge

 Toby Kamps, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Museum Houston

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Awards and Purchase Prizes

$5,000.00  Onderdonk Purchase Prize plus approximately  $10,000.00 will be awarded.

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Eligibility

• Artists with established current residence within 60 miles radius of San Antonio, including armed forces personnel stationed in the area.
• Non-resident members of the Art League for five years or more.
• Entrants must be 18 years or older.

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Specification and Media 

To be considered by the judge, entries must be:

• Original.  Student work completed under instruction or in direct association with a class is not acceptable.
• Completed since January 1, 2006.
• Suitable framed and wired for display.
• Painting may not exceed 50 inches in any dimension including the frame.  Three dimensional works may not exceed 60 inches in any dimension nor weigh more than 150 pounds. (Indoor)
• Identification Card must be attached to upper left corner of the back of framed entries or underside of object.
• No suspended or hanging sculpture.
• Physical properties of work must be stable.
• Paint must be dry.
• SAAL&M reserves the right to restrict entries, if necessary in the interest of safety and ability to handle due to weight or size.
• A maximum of three entries may be submitted.
• Compute enhanced photograph will be considered and must be designated as such.
• Outdoor (Yard) Sculptures may be entered with picture of sculpture and dimension
• All works that are exhibited are made available for purchase with the exception of the Onderdonk Prize.  The Artists will received 60% or the sale and 40% is retained by SAAL&M.

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Entry Fees, Forms, Dates

• An entry fee of $10.00 per entry is required of each non-Art League member.
  
  
• Members may submit one entry free. Second and third entries at a fee of $10.00 each. Fees must accompany Entry Form, is non-refundable and are used to defray exhibition costs.
  
  
• Only Artists within 60 miles radius from San Antonio are eligible unless the Artist is a member of San Antonio Art League and Museum.
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• All work must be delivered for judging to San Antonio Art League Gallery, 130 King William Street, on February 22  11am to 4pm & February 23rd , 12noon to 6pm.
  
  
• The works will be juried and either accepted or declined  for the Exhibition on February 24th, 2008
  
  
• Declined ENTRIES MUST be picked up on March 1st, 2008, 10am - 2pm or March 2nd, 2008 5pm - 7pm.  The San Antonio Art League will not assume responsibility for entries not picked up by this time.
  
  
• Accepted entries will hang in the Exhibition until the end of the exhibition. Exhibited work must be picked up from not sold must be picked up on June 6th or June 7th, 2008 from 10am to 2pm at SAAL&M.

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Liability:

 SAAL&M will not be responsible for loss or damage to any work of art submitted, and all works are submitted and received subject to this condition.  All possible care will be used in handling entries.

Submission of work constitutes an agreement to all conditions of the prospectus.

Ethel T. Drought Founders Award for outstanding contribution to the Arts shall be awarded to an art patron at the May Awards and Installation Luncheon.

Previous recipients are:

2001 - Dorothy and Charles Katz 2002 - Edith McAllister 2003 - Walter Nold Mathis 2004 - Margaret Pace Willson and Linda Pace 2005 - Betty Lou and Larry Sheerin 2006 - Libba Barnes 2007 - Chris Hill 2008 - Marie and Hugh Halff

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San Antonio Art League and Museum

Summer Exhibition

"From the Permanent Collection"

June 8^th to August 2^nd, 2008

Opening reception Sunday, June 8, 2008 from 3 to 5pm

Following San Antonio’s tradition, the San Antonio Art League and Museum (SAAL&M) presents Contemporary Art, the surprising surface of its unique movement during the fifties. Abstracts and more----

SAAL&M is taking advantage of a generous donation by the family of Margaret Putnam and offering "Ezekials Vision" for sale. Margaret painted this collectable piece in 1969-1970. SAAL&M does have four of Margaret’s works in the permanent collection, one of which is in the exhibit in the "fifties gallery". Long time member Bill Reily is included in this gallery also. Several member artists will participate in:

Gallery I – The Sale Gallery

Gallery II –will feature living artists Brother Cletus Behlmann, Linda Hammond, Marcia Gygle King, and James Hendricks.

Remembering Kuo Yen Ng, Sally Walker, Cecil Casebier, Keith McIntyre, Amy Freeman Lee, and many familiar names throughout the Exhibit.

Gallery IV – highlights Gordan West, Jim Stoker and Marija Kae Rodriguez and most recent restored works "Bouquet" by Diana Fleming and "Crptic Offering" by Elizabeth Van Pelt.

SAAL&M hours 10am to 2pm –Tuesday to Saturday

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